The new stars of the kosher wine-list

by: Anthea Gerrie

THIS YEAR sees
some excellent
new bottles on
the kosher wine
shelves which
have won accolades
not only at
home in Israel
but in the wider
world. Israel's
table wines are improving all the
time with competition from boutique
wineries - and even at lower price
points the quality is impressive.

The name Montefiore is so familiar
to the anglo-Jewish community
that it is surprising it had never been
bestowed on a wine until last year. yet
while Moses Montefiore was the first
to urge 19th century zionists to restart
a wine industry that had lain dormant
for a millennium, he did not actually plant vines himself.